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emmainna [20.7K]
4 years ago
11

Abel is 6 feet tall and casts an 8-foot shadow. A lamppost next to him casts a 13.5-foot shadow. Use the drop-down menus to buil

d an equation that can be used to find the height, h, of the lamppost.
Mathematics
2 answers:
Anettt [7]4 years ago
8 0
The lamp post height is 11.5 feet
crimeas [40]4 years ago
4 0

Answer:


Step-by-step explanation:

this is a proportion word problem


so 6/8=x/13.5


notice that the top half of the division is for actual height and lower half is for the height of the shadow.


cross multiply your equation and then solve for x


x=10.125

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